---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Telemedicine – Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and Psychiatrists"
description: "Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Telemedicine – Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and Psychiatrists"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 524"
citation: "Maryland SB 524 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Electronic Communication", "Health Care Facilities", "Health", "Department of", "Medical Assistance", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Nurses", "Patients", "Psychiatrists", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Video"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bcfd15d-64e4-4e83-8717-aee896e80eba"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB524&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "377ff70d4a4477d072f90dc5dce3023acd1f41bd98d44507855eb838ee6721a1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland SB 524 (2019) — Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Telemedicine – Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners and Psychiatrists

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0524f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {547771/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-27** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-28** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2019-04-02** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4bcfd15d-64e4-4e83-8717-aee896e80eba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).